How to define a function pointer pointing to a static member function?

Question

#include "stdafx.h"  class Person; typedef void (Person::*PPMF)();  // error C2159: more than one storage class specified typedef static void (Person::*PPMF2)();    class Person { public:     static PPMF verificationFUnction()     {          return &Person::verifyAddress;      }      // error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from      // 'void (__cdecl *)(void)' to 'PPMF2'     PPMF2 verificationFUnction2()                    {          return &Person::verifyAddress2;      } private:     void verifyAddress() {}      static void verifyAddress2() {} };  int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {     Person scott;      PPMF pmf = scott.verificationFUnction();     (scott.*pmf)();     return 0; } 

Question: I need to define a function pointer PPMF2 to pointing to a static member function verifyAddress2. How can I do it?

#include "stdafx.h"  class Person; typedef void (Person::*PPMF)(); typedef void (Person::*PPMF2)();  class Person { public:     static PPMF verificationFUnction()     {          return &Person::verifyAddress;      }     PPMF2 verificationFUnction2()     {          return &Person::verifyAddress2;      } private:     void verifyAddress() {}      static void verifyAddress2() {} };  int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {     Person scott;      PPMF pmf = scott.verificationFUnction();     (scott.*pmf)();      return 0; } 

Answer 1

A pointer to a static member function is just a normal function pointer. typedef void (*PPMF2)(). You assign it to a static member function like you assign any function pointer, only that the static member function is inside the class scope:

PPMF2 myfunc = &MyClass::StaticMemberFunc; 

Answer 2

About static member function guarantees:

С++ ISO/IEC 14882 2003-10-15 says that

5.2.2 There are two kinds of function call: ordinary function call and member function 57) (9.3) call....

57) A static member function (9.4) is an ordinary function.

Theoretically static-member-functions can have another calling convention. But standart allow us to leverage on such thing...

Answer: typedef void (Person::*PPMF2)() => typedef void (*PPMF2)()